Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) was one of the most popular and
influential creative forces in late Georgian Britain, producing a
diversity of works that defy simple categorisation. He was an
actor, lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, comedian,
theatre-manager, journalist, artist, music tutor, speculator, and
author of novels, historical works, polemical pamphlets, and guides
to musical education. This collection of essays illuminates the
social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career
possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored
aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. Tracing
the transitions in the cultural economy from an eighteenth-century
system of miscellany to a nineteenth-century regime of
specialisation, Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
illustrates the variety of Dibdin's cultural output as
characteristic of late eighteenth-century entertainment, while also
addressing the challenge mounted by a growing preoccupation with
specialisation in the early nineteenth century. The chapters,
written by some of the leading experts in their individual
disciplines, examine Dibdin's extraordinarily wide-ranging career,
spanning cultural spaces from the theatres at Drury Lane and Covent
Garden, through Ranelagh Gardens, Sadler's Wells, and the Royal
Circus, to singing on board ships and in elegant Regency parlours;
from broadside ballads and graphic satires, to newspaper
journalism, mezzotint etchings, painting, and decorative pottery.
Together they demonstrate connections between forms of cultural
production that have often been treated as distinct, and provide a
model for a more integrated approach to the fabric of late Georgian
cultural production.
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